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Do you know which food is made around the world but looks very different, depending on where you are? It’s bread! From flat breads baked over an open fire, to dark, heartywhole grains, to light, fluffy, white loaves for sandwiches, bread can look like almost anything.

Some cultures have specific rules for when to eat bread and how to get it. For example, people in some countries traditionally eat bread for dinner. In other places, people get up before the sun to buy bread at the local bakery. Whether you buy it off the store shelf or hot out of the oven, it’s important to know what goes into the food you eat and if it has high nutritional value.

One way to be sure of the ingredients is to bake bread at home! The ingredients for a simple loaf are easy: flour, water, salt, yeast, and sugar. Yeast takes time to rise, so you do have to plan ahead. But the smell of fresh-baked bread is definitely worth the time and energy it takes.

Learn who loves to bake bread in this English lesson.

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Lily loves baking bread. It’s pretty easy, and she always knows exactly what she puts into her food. Baking bread herself assures Lily there are no scary preservatives or anything that’s not natural. Plus, she can bake all different kinds of bread.

Rafael thinks Lily’s bread smells amazing, but he can’t eat it, even though she offers him some. Rafael says he’s allergic to gluten, which means he’ll get sick if he eats most bread. The protein gluten is found in wheat flour, so he has to be careful about his food choices.

Not all hope is lost, though! Rafael tells Lily there are some breads that are gluten free. She promises to look for some recipes and try baking a gluten free bread soon.

Do you bake your own bread? What does bread look like where you live? What’s your opinion on gluten-free food?

I love bread. Unfortunately I don’t bake my own bread. The efforts takes to much time in my opinion. By us, Bread is available in huge shapes, sizes and formats. We have dark, bright and small breads. About gluten-free bread, I’m not sure, if is really necessary. Partly it seems that “i’m gluten allergic” is just a phrase.

Bread is one of the oldest staple food since antiquity. It is also sometimes called poor man’s food; as one can survive on bread alone even if nothing else is there. Bread making process is quite diverse and varies from culture to culture. In many cosmopolitan cities one can find wide varieties of breads in grocery stores; as people from different cultures bring different recipes for wider consumers. Making fresh bread at home is better as one can avoid additives. Bread making machines are affordably making the job easy peasy lemon squeezy. However, this new marketing strategy of sub categorising breads into gluten and gluten free is inconceivable. People since thousands and thousands of years never complained about it in the whole recorded history than how it become problem since last few decades. This problem could be due to genetical modification in the crops as there is big controversy over it. Before buying flour for bread check the labels that say: non gmo flour.

a2020, Hi ... celiac disease or glutten intolerance puts our health in jeopardy if we are not aware of it. Also it is necessary that a mother have their children tested for the first years they are born. Now we have a lot of information about this disease , i don´t think that in the past most people knew that they were suffering from glutten- intolerance ,it is so serious that even a grain of wheat that accidentally is eaten might sent the person to the hospital.

My mom tried to bake bread at home a few times … well … it smelled really good this fresh baked bread … but the taste especially the next day … sorry it wasn’t (it was like clay). You know … I had to tell her some sweet lies about this bread :). Maybe you need for that the real oven like in the old houses in the country side … not the electric ones that are available in the cities. Or maybe it was the lack of experience?

I love bread. We eat differente kind of bread in my country at any hour of the day. So many years ago, my mother used to bake our own bread for breakfast… bay it was strenuous doing that every night. So we just buy it at the bakery. Nevertheless, nothing compares the taste of what we prepare with our hands.

baking bread by yourown is excited as long as it’s nothing wrong with it .i usually bake bread with my mom .we hve lots of different kinds of local bread here .once i tried to bake one from net bt damn it wasn’t good at all. local ones r the best.

I prefer homemade bread ,free from preservatives and fresh out of the oven . Today we have bread makers on the market , i give faith that the loaf we get is of excellent quality ,we may want to add flavours as of fruits , nuts , our choice. I like the garlic bread ,it has to be first heated in the microwave , a pleasure to indulge in :))))

I’ve never baked bread by my own. In fact, whenever I’m at home one of my major duties is to purchase different sorts of fresh bread for breakfast especially in the morning.

In my home town there are a wide variety of bread which is served in bakeries. Some of them are totally large and thin. Others are completely different in shape and initial consumed material. A few types of them are producing in traditional way and the rest are modern. Furthermore, as a form viewpoint most of them look like circular, cylindrical, tiny piece of squire shaped and so on.

I think bcz the gluten makes it healthier and full of nutrition value, certainly, it would be so good. Sincerely, I wish to be delicious too.